[mdlug] CentOS 5.2 availability

[Carl T. Miller]

Wojtak, Greg wrote:
> Is there a difference between running popping the 5.3 CD in the drive and
> choosing "Upgrade System" and simply running yum update on a system
> running 5.2?  If not, I do this all the time (yum update and
> /etc/redhat-release display the current version).

The difference is in what packages are accessible.  If you boot
from the cd, you only have those packages available.  If you
run yum upgrade, you'll have access to all of your repositories
as well as any updates since the cd image was created.  I recommend
running yum upgrade.

c